Story retelling activities first grade

Hello Everyone! Thanks for stopping by our blog to see what's happening in our first grade classroom! This week we are working very hard on "retelling"stories we have read. Learning how to retell a story helps our little learners as readers and thinkers. It helps to organize thought, and recognize the thoughts we have during reading. It helps us recognize when our thinking changes throughout our reading. Characteristics of good retelling are: using character names, telling about the setting…

Learn 3 EASY ways to increase retelling skills in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade readers. These hands-on activities can be implemented at the small group reading table. Boost comprehension with these hands-on, visual, and tactile learning activities and lessons for students.

Let's take a little peek in a day in first grade! I love my job and working with the kids, tap to get some tips and tricks you can use too!

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By focusing on the main entity and subject of the narrative, Retelling Worksheets contribute to enhancing reading fluency, literacy skills, and critical thinking skills. This is because retelling worksheets provide a series of comprehension activities. So, children can practice their important skills through reading comprehension and story sequencing. Teachers can also use this worksheet to find the best reading strategies. So, let's use these worksheets now and help kids improve many…

Hi everyone! Today I'm here with an update on our shared reading activities! We have spent a lot of time the last few months on fiction story elements.We spend about 2 weeks (4 days a week) on each topic. This is what our schedule has looked like...and this will take us right up to spring break! We started by reading fiction books (whole group) and just practicing our retells (characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end). Next, we focused on the problem & solution in fiction books. We…

We've gathered up all of the FREE reading comprehension response sheets we've created and put them HERE! They can be paired with any book and are useful all year long! Grab these sheets for your Kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade classroom today!

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